A SUSPECT BEHIND BARS TONIGHT... IN A GAS STATION ROBBERY AND BEATING... THAT LEFT A MAN PARALYZED. WLWT NEWS 5'S BRIAN HAMRICK IS LEADING THE WAY... LIVE IN FLORENCE... WITH A STORY YOU SAW FIRST ON WLWT. THE VICTIM'S FAMILY WHO RUNS THIS SHELL STATION SAYS IT'S DOUBTFUL HE WILL EVER WALK AGAIN. WHEN THEY SAW WHO WAS ARRESTED THEY WERE SHOCKED.. AND SO WAS THE SUSPECT'S MOTHER. IT'S A DISTURBING ASSAULT... AS THE MAN IN THE GAUDY ATTACKS THE VICTIM LEAVING HIM PARALYZED... NOW POLICE SAY THE MAN IN THE SECURITY VIDEO... IS 20 YEAR OLD SAYEE DAHN... AT HIS FLORENCE APARTMENT WE CAUGHT UP WITH HIS MOTHER... ("Edward is your son ... " Yeatea bouquia/suspect's mother "yes..." "and do you think this is something he would do..." Yeatea bouquia "no.") YEATEA BOUQUIA (BO-KWE-UH) SAYS SHE HER SON JUST GOT OUT OF JAIL ON A DUI BUT CAN'T IMAGINE HIM HURTING SOMEONE. (Hamrick "this clerk is paralyzed... he may never walk again." Yeatea bouquia/ suspect's mother "I don't know if Edward could do that I don't know.") THE VICTIM IS KANUBAI PATEL... POLICE SAY HE WAS ROBBED ... THEN THE THEIF TOOK OFF IN THIS CAR... PATEL'S WHITE CAMERY... AND POLICE SAY IT'S NO COINCIDENCE THAT WHEN DAHN WAS FOUND... (capt. Linny cloyd/florence police" we're not looking for anyone else. We feel he is solely responsible for the attack and the theft.") AT THE SAME COUNTER WHERE KANUBAI PATEL WORKED... NOW... HIS PICTURE IS ON A CONTAINER TO RAISE MONEY FOR HIS HOSPITAL BILLS. (Minesh patel/Victim's brother "my family ... my brother's family ... we're totally depressed right now.") MINESH PATEL IS THE VICTIM'S BROTHER. HE SAYS THEY NOW KNOW WHY HE WAS CAUGHT OFF GUARD... ("this guy he knows very well ... that's why he's got no worry about him doing anything.") DAHN MOVED TO THE US FROM LIBERIA WEST AFRICA IN 2006... HIS MOTHER SAYS HE HAD SOME TROUBLE AS A KID BUT NOTHING LIKE THIS. (Yeatea bouquia/ suspect's mother "if this is my son...if this was my son.. I am very sorry this happened like this because you can raise the child but you don't know what is in their mind.") FLORENCE POLICE HAD QUESTIONED DAHN WHO DENIED THE ATTACK ... THEY ISSUED ARREST WARRANTS... THEN HE WAS FOUND IN THE VICTIMS CAR THIS MORNING. LIVE ... BRIAN HAMRICK... WLWT ... NEWS FIVE. DAHN FACES CHARGES OF ROBBERY AND THEFT OF A MOTOR VEHICLE IN KENTON COUNTY WHERE HE WAS ARRESTED... BUT HE'LL FACE CHARGES RELATED TO THE ATTACK IN BOONE COUNTY.

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